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Georgia
Stitt
Composer
Georgia
Stitt,
composer/lyricist, wrote Big Red Sun with John Jiler and
The Water with Jeff Hylton and Tim Werenko. She is currently
developing a musical revue with David Kirshenbaum and has written a
number of songs with Sam Davis. With Marcy Heisler she wrote
Alphabet City Cycle, five songs for soprano, violin and piano.
Georgia’s non-theatrical commissions include several choral pieces,
Let Me Sing For You, performed at The Kennedy Center, Echo,
performed by the Women’s Chorus at the University of California,
Berkeley, De Profundis and A Better Resurrection,
premiered at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, as well as a
setting of a poem by Howard Schwartz, These Two, for string
quartet and tenor. Also a music director, Georgia has worked
extensively on Broadway (Little Shop of Horrors, Avenue Q, Sweet
Smell of Success, The Music Man, Titanic, Annie, Parade
and the upcoming Leap of Faith), Off-Broadway (The Thing
About Men, Stars In Your Eyes, After The Fair,
The Prince and the Pauper and tick, tick…
BOOM!)
and in film (“The Stepford Wives” and “Once Upon a Mattress”). She
attended Vanderbilt and NYU and now lives in NY and LA with her
husband Jason and their daughter Molly.
www.georgiastitt.com |
Sam Davis
Composer
Sam Davis
is
a composer, arranger, conductor, and pianist. Broadway credits
include pianist and/or conductor for over 15 shows, including the
revivals of Cabaret, Follies, and Into the Woods.
Other New York credits include dance music arranger for Sinatra
at Radio City, as well as Dr. Sex, A Woman of Will, Belle Epoque,
and Dream True. Regionally, Sam has worked as arranger and/or
musical director at San Diego's Old Globe and La Jolla Playhouse,
Connecticut's Goodspeed Opera House, and Philadelphia's Prince Music
Theater. His orchestrations have been performed by the San Francisco
Symphony, the Philadelphia Pops, the Rochester Symphony, and the
Columbus Symphony, among others, and he can be heard on the
recordings Warm Spring Night and Dream True (both P.S.
Classics). As composer, Sam is a founding member of the New Voices
Collective at Symphony Space, and a winner of the Jonathan Larson
Award. A evening of his work was recently performed at Joe's Pub,
and his new song cycle, Dysfunctional Fables, will be
premiered at Symphony Space this fall. Other upcoming projects
include Kander & Ebb's Curtains at the Ahmanson Theater in
Los Angeles. Sam is a 1998 graduate of the University of Michigan
School Of Music. |
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Performers
Lauren Kennedy
(Monty Python's Spamalot, Side Show, Sunset Boulevard)
Will Chase (Miss Saigon, Lennon, Aida, The Full Monty,
Rent)
Andrea Burns (Songs for a New World, Beauty and the Beast,
The Full Monty)
Jennifer Simard (I
Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change, Forbidden Broadway, That's
Life, Pets)
Michael Winther (Mamma Mia!, 1776, The
Crucible, Artist Descending a Staircase,
Damn Yankees)
Ricky Todd Adams
Monique French
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"Bright Lights” is a series featuring new and emerging composers and
lyricists in the musical theatre.
